This website
presents
family history developed by Neil A.
Boyerof
Silver Spring, Maryland, with the cooperation of many others.Focus
is
given to the families listed below.Use
the Search box at right for specific names.

This
begins with the immigrant Conrad
Waltman
(1715-1796), who came to
America aboard the Davy
in 1738 and settled in the area around
Kreidersville, Pennsylvania, about ten miles north of
Allentown. This is presented in three chapters:

Part
I focuses on Conrad
Waltman
himself and the genealogical debate over
whether he was the man named "Conrad Waltman" who was a member of a
Flying Camp unit that participated in the Battle of
Fort Washington on
November 16, 1776. This part includes a critique
of a book relied upon by many researchers, The House of Waltman,
by Lora S. LaMance.

Part
II focuses on
the 13, 14, or 15 estimated children
of Conrad,
with
special attention to his son Valentine
Waltman
(1732?-1810?), who lived
near Schoenersville, Pennsylvania, and on Valentine's son, Conrad
Waltman
(1759-1785), here called "Conrad
Waltman, Junior,"
who died at
the age of 26 but may have been the Conrad who participated in the
Revolution (and not his grandfather).

Part
III focuses on
Peter
Waltman
(1779-1836), the son of Conrad
Junior, who lived near Allentown. It includes attention
to Peter's children, particularly Joseph
Waltman
(1806-1898),
who moved to Easton, Pennsylvania, and was a noted
carpenter and bridge-builder. It also includes special
treatment
and photographs of the families of two of the sons of Joseph Waltman, Jacob Franklin Waltman
(1835-1923) and Samuel Waltman
(1832-1911). Also provided are details of the Taylor
family of Easton, which was joined to the Waltmans through the marriage
of Sabina Taylor and Samuel Waltman, and the Rutman
family of Easton, which joined to the Waltmans through the marriage of
Minerva Rutman and Dr. Charles Waltman.

This
section focuses on Johann
Georg Friedrich Boyer (1718-1804), who
traveled from Europe to America aboard the Nancy in 1752 and
settled in the area around Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania. Known as
Frederick or Friedrich, he was the founder of a large family with many
descendants. Among them was the noted gunsmith David Boyer
(1806-1883),
of Orwigsburg. A detailed chronology of the
family
is provided, showing the descendants of Johann Georg Friedrich Boyer in
a direct line down to Lewis Elmer Boyer (1869-1948) of Easton,
Pennsylvania, and all of his descendants.

This section
contains discussion of the work of the Association
of American Boyers, which has published
histories of the
Boyer family across the United States since 1915.

This
section focuses on two of the descendants of the Orwigsburg
Boyers, who moved to Easton, Pennsylvania, in the mid-1800s.
This includes George
B. Boyer
(1839-1907), and his son Lewis
Elmer Boyer
(1869-1948), who married Henrietta
Waltman(1874-1948)
and linked the large Boyer and Waltman families. The
section also includes Lew Boyer's descendants down to the present day.

Genealogical charts are provided for Lew and each of his
children. Also, a detailed chronology of the
family,
limited to basic genealogical data, is provided, running from the
ancestors of Lewis Elmer Boyer, back to 1718, to his descendants, as
recent as 2009. A shorter
chronology is
also provided.

Also included, NEW, is
a photo gallery
showing the Boyers of Easton from 1880 to 2009.

This
section deals with nine interrelated families (see the list below),
mostly originating in
Western Pennsylvania. The section focuses on Clarence
Ray
Long
(1889-1935), a muckraking journalist,
prolific writer
and liberal intellectual who lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It
provides
detail on the lives of his descendants and his ancestors, with
additional
detail on family members interlinked through marriage. The
major families covered here are these:

This
section focuses on ancestors of Dorothy
Buss Boyer
(1914-1987),
who married S.
David Boyer
(1911-2006), both of Easton,
Pennsylvania. These
begin with the heads of four intertwined Northampton County families:

This
section focuses on the families of George
Jackson,
born in
Workington, Cumberland, about 1793, and Francis
James
(1793-1865), born
in Birkby, Cumberland. George's son Edward Jackson
(1813-1857) married Agnes James (1814-1889), daughter of Francis James,
and they lived in Bridekirk. Their descendants were related by marriage
to the Wilkinson, Bartonand Hayesfamilies of Lancashire.Among
those descendants, William
Jackson
(1879-1944) and Sarah
Wilkinson Jackson (1879-1942) traveled to America
from
England in 1923
and 1924 and settled in the area around Easton, Pennsylvania, and
Phillipsburg, New Jersey. Descendants include Anna
Jackson
(1912-2006), daughter of Bill and Sarah, who
married L.
Arthur Boyer
(1909-1985), of Easton, Pennsylvania, and her
brother, John
E. Jackson
(1923-2000), of Phillipsburg, who later moved
to California
and Washington State.